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In this photo taken Monday, March 22, 2010, Zac Browning, owner of Browning's Honey Co. Inc., inspects a hive containing queen bees in an almond orchard at a bee farm east of Merced, Calif. Browning keeps his hives in Idaho Falls, Idaho, through the winter, then brings them to California each year for the almond crop pollination. He said so many of his bees died in recent months in Idaho but weren't discovered dead until they arrived in California that he resorted to calling friends and colleagues on the East Coast and begged them to replenish his stocks so he could meet growers' demands in California. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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